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115 min 2001 IMDb 6.7

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The Old Man Who Read Love Stories

Drama, Adventure

🎬 Critics Choice Nominee
Director Rolf de Heer
Status Released
Release Date 2001-03-07

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In El Idilio, a village on the banks of a river in the Amazon rainforest, Antonio BolΓ­var, known to everyone as "The Old Man," lives a recluse. One day, Antonio begins reading the romance novels that the traveling dentist Rubicondo Loachamin brings him to pass the time. He shares this occupation with a beautiful local girl, a waitress and prostitute, named Josefina, with whom he ends up falling in love. But all does not go smoothly when Antonio is forced to go on a hunting trip.

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